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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 09:31 PM Original message |
Poll question: Remember WATERGATE? We're living Worse Than Watergate, the Secret Government. When are the HEARINGS? |
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MarjorieG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
1. Watergate hearings happened because of media and public support. Not there yet. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 09:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Oh that's right, People will care WHEN IT AFFECTS THEM. |
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glowing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
3. You need an "I'm too young".. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 09:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Yes, they "don't remember".... they were too young or not born yet.......... |
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glowing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 09:39 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. ok, so I clicked for your "don't remember" which would seem to suggest that |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 10:03 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. "Don't remember" is not an accusation that you forgot! |
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BuyingThyme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
6. I guess this will just be deleted, but... |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 09:59 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. OK. And we need Independent Counsel, Hearings, Investigations and them to quit messing around |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 01:16 AM Response to Reply #6 |
29. The game plan of the Powers that Be has worked well |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 09:59 PM Response to Original message |
7. I remember Watergate clearly. It took a helluva long time to get |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 10:04 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Certainly not 8 years long ............... ................. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 10:18 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Well, BushCo didn't start to stink straightaway, if you remember recent history. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 10:46 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. lower stink threshold: |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 11:06 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Well, of course people weren't going to like his choices. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 11:22 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. He wasn't "reelected" and was never elected. The media enabled his bogus ratings. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 11:25 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Fine. He did a second term, and his ratings tanked AFTER that term started. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 11:30 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. OK you're right if we're talking perception management and then there's |
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csziggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 12:11 AM Response to Reply #7 |
23. And there are still facts coming out that were not public at the time |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 01:01 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. The Billy Graham tapes were the ones that floored me! NT |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 01:07 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Nixon's Oval Office language a shocker. Then Cheney to Leahy "Go fuck yourself" on the Senate floor! |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 01:07 AM Response to Reply #23 |
27. . |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
11. Watergate was in another country for me |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 11:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. What did it look like from where you were? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 11:13 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I was a young kid... but the news covered watergate every night |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 11:29 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Thanks NB I always appreciate your perspective, very much............ |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-14-09 11:34 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Oh you welcome, it was interesting to hear the adults though |
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wiggs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 12:02 AM Response to Original message |
22. It's orders of magnitude huger than Watergate. It's the story of the century |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 12:22 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Yup. Huger. |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 01:16 AM Response to Original message |
28. The Hearings Have Already Begun...Where You Been? |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 01:19 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Zelikow really surprised the heck out of me. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-15-09 10:10 AM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Where are the hearings on every channel of free network TV like back then? THAT |
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